Reflecting life, revealing good and evil--the four tragedies of Shakespeare after reading summary

Hamlet

The main line is the Prince revenge. Hamlet's uncle used the ruse to kill Hamlet's father, the Danish king, and became a new king and married his mother. Hamlet at first only to his uncle's conduct dissatisfaction, mother in the death of the father after two months to marry uncle dissatisfaction. Later in the father of the ghost of the story just know maybe uncle with tricks killed father, so-called kill Father Mother's revenge. But Hamlet is not sure whether the ghost is telling the truth, because ghosts are not a clean thing after all. So Hamlet let a bunch of actors will uncle killed his father's things to show his uncle and his mother to see, in order to observe his uncle's reaction to judge whether the heart ghost. After the determination of Uncle Devils, but also let Uncle Heart alert, decided to send Hamlet to Britain to kill it. Before leaving, hamlet in grumble mother, inadvertently will the curtain after eavesdropping girlfriend Ophelia's father Polonius killed. This resulted in Ophelia's insanity, the eventual drowning, and the Revenge of the son of Laertes, the Wave Lonez. Hamlet on the ship to England tampered with the credentials, the two lost friends to the dead end, and met the Pirates, returned to Denmark. The angry Laertes and the king designed to kill Hamlet in the duel, and to poison the sword on the duel, and to give him a poisoned wine to ensure his death. Finally quirks the king, Queen, Hamlet and Laertes all died in the palace of the duel.

To think carefully, the main characters are basically dead: The Danish king, the Old king, the new king, the Queen, the Prince, Minister Polonius, father, son, daughter. The tragedy of the story is actually the tragic character of the protagonist. If Hamlet's character is more decisive, there will be no later this series of intricate tragedies. Hamlet has been thinking about the meaning of death or life, the most famous "to was or not to being, that's the question" is represented. A person who is thinking about the meaning of life and death all day, let him do revenge such a need decisive character, do not think also will be a tragedy. Every tragedy has a very bad villain, but the villain is often not the most hateful, but the protagonist is a lot of time in fact more hateful, so-called "grief its misfortune, anger it does not struggle."

In addition to the main line, there are some other flash places in the text. For example, some of the teachings of Polonius for Laertes, are some of the wisdom of human character cultivation, such as Hamlet in the whole story has been spit groove women's weak and changeable, "fragile ah, your name is a woman"; for example, two grave-Digger's wonderful discussion about life in the cemetery. In short, in addition to the story itself, the article is filled with the author of the Life of the world's thinking, thought-provoking.

Othello

The story was very happy at the beginning. Black General Othello married the Venetian elder Baula Bansiu female Moss Desdemonas, they all love each other deeply, even at the same to deceive the black people have discriminatory Braban repair private life. But bad things happen in the bad guys--Iago always felt Othello brought him a green hat, and he felt he should be Othello's aide, not Cassio. It coincided with the Turkish invasion from the sea, and the Duke of Venice decided to send Othello to Cyprus for resistance.

Iago cheat has been secretly love Moss Desdemonas friend Rodrigo elder brother, said to help him win back Moss Desdemonas love, in order to cheat his money and achieve his goal. It's a poor guy, and it's been a lot of drama. In Cyprus, the entire fleet was wiped out because the Turks were in a typhoon, so they won without a fight. In the evening of celebration, Iago Cassio drunk, and let Rodrigo elder brother to provoke him, the result of drunk Cassio and block he did wrong of the original governor Montano fight up. Cassio lost his aide position. Iago told Cassio to plead with Moss Desdemonas to get Othello forgiveness, and then told Osero Casio with Moss Desdemonas had a leg, thus creating an illusion, that is, Moss Desdemonas for the adultery with Cassio to intercede for him. Then Iago further deepened the understanding of Othello through ingenious hints. In the end, poor brother Rodrigo was Iago used to assassinate Cassio, but was killed, Othello strangled the pure wife Moss Desdemonas, Iago wife Amelia denounced her husband's scheming, stabbed to death by her husband, Iago adultery, was brought to justice, the truth, Othello suicide in front of the dead wife, Cassio took over the position of governor.

Like Hamlet, the story also has a bad villain-Iago. He was suspicious, and glib, in order to his superior purpose, at the expense of Rodrigo elder brother and Cassio, he suspected that his wife and Othello have an affair, so do not hesitate to use Othello kill Moss Desdemonas. Then there is a character with a flawed protagonist. Othello in the battlefield heroic invincible, in the interpersonal relationship is a trust A, doubt the wife loyal person, of course, can also say Iago lies too high and clear.

What impressed me most in the story was the unconditional deep love of Tess Desdemonas for her husband, and the contrast between the foolish Othello and the deep hurt of his wife by being deceived. Like Amelia Scold Othello said: "You are not worthy of such a good Wife, you this behavior is not allowed". On the surface, Othello's love for his wife is so profound, but he knows that his love is so fragile in comparison. So read the whole story, the most hateful is not Iago, but the protagonist Othello.

Think carefully, the central idea of the whole article is the fragility of love. There are three pairs of couples, namely Othello and Moss Desdemonas, Iago and Amelia, and Cassio and bean cards. None of the three couples have ever been good. In Shakespeare's view, the most important point of love should be "trust" it. These three couples, women are not sorry for the male, but the men for various reasons for their female companion did not fulfill their responsibilities. It seems to be a conflict with the expression of "fragile, your name is a woman" in Hamlet. But in my opinion, these two views do not conflict, because I think in his view, this shows that Shakespeare thought that love is the whole is fragile.

King lear

Lear may be old and confused, without any right to give all rights as a dowry to three daughters, and because the little daughter Cordelia will not rhetoric and only gave two big daughters Goneril and Reagan. As a result, her little daughter was married to France, and the two older daughters were too surly to cut off his entourage. Lear was driven insane, with only one clown and the Earl of Kent, who pretended to be a minion. Gloucester, the family's loyal son, Ed, was a treacherous bastard, Edmund, who provoked a runaway, and became a beggar. Eventually the little daughter led the French Army to justice for the father, defeated in the hands of two older daughters, and was eventually constricted to death; Edmund was killed by the love of Gloucester, and the death of the Conwall, and the death of the two daughters of the great daughter for the love of the lover; Killed by the servant's assassination, King Lear died of grief over the death of his little daughter.

This story gives me a deeper impression than "Othello" and "Hamlet". In the story, two old fathers, Lear and Gloucester, listened to the words of their children and hurt their good children. And in the story, they also got retribution--Lear was Gloucester by two daughters, and was directly driven mad; he was denounced by Desmond and dug into his eyes (which may imply he youyanwuzhu it), and eventually died of sorrow and joy.

Another contradiction is that two big daughters in addition to their own father is not good, but also extramarital affair with the same cheap Edmond Edmund, really no thunder dead.

For Cordelia, I have some opinions myself. She was a bit like me, clumsy in expressing, "whatever I think about in my mind, I always hate to put it in my mouth before I put it into practice ... But only in this way, it makes me particularly respectful of my own personality. " But, this is a somewhat clumsy person, personality is one thing, ability is another thing, finally was killed. Just as Kent in the text is a loyal and wise man, and Gloucester is a loyal and foolish man, the outcome of both of them illustrates this. Virtue is on the one hand, ability is on the other hand. Germany is bad, will not be good to die, like in front of every tragedy of the big villain, Germany good ability is bad, also will die very miserable, such as Gloucester;

Another point of the harvest is the text of the love of Desmond, and the "Othello" in the Iago used by the means almost exactly the same, are to deceive the integrity of the people, and people can not communicate in a timely manner, or some things are not good direct communication of the information is not smooth and caused by misunderstanding to achieve their goals. I hope that I will not make similar mistakes in my future life. If you hear from someone else's mouth like other people how to drop, if you can, may as well, to face up to the face of death than wronged death is much stronger.

Then excerpt some good sentences:

"You are the richest because you are poor, you are the most precious because you are forsaken, and you are despised by others, so I love you most." ”

"In the excitement of the adultery, the essence of the world, the parents of the vitality of the children, not to have a no fun of the wife, in the half-awake between the production of the group of idiots?" ”

"He never calculated others, so he did not suspect that others had calculated him."

"The madman walks with the blind, which is the general sickness of this age." ”

"Wisdom and Righteousness are evil in the eyes of the wicked, and dirty men only like dirty things." ”

"When we were born, we came to this vast stage, which was full of fools, so we couldn't help crying." ”

Macbeth

Macbeth is a general in Scotland, by the fate of the three goddess of the Bewitched, with his wife to kill the Scottish Wang Dunken, the final friendless, was Duncan's son Malcolm soldiers killed.

This is the simplest part of the four tragedies, with only one story trunk. Interestingly, every tragedy has a villain, the first three are a supporting role, this part has finally become a positive-the protagonist as the villain description, is this and the previous several differences between the largest place.

The most impressive thing is that the three goddesses told Macbeth that it was only possible to be defeated when "the Bonan Woods would be directed at him to the young mountains". "No woman has been born to hurt Macbeth." Macbeth thought that none of the two conditions could be achieved, and that he was invincible. Seeing this reminds me of the king of the Lord of the Rings, "no man" can be killed, the result is wrong, no man is not nobody, but no men can kill him. Macbeth is a similar method of death.

In this story, I want to say to Macbeth that he himself has said: "Life is just a walking shadow, a poor mummers on the stage, the debut of a moment, quietly retreat in silence, it is a fool's story, full of noise and commotion, but can not find a little meaning." Macbeth is a man who is completely fooled by his fate, that's all.

Summarize

In four tragedies, it is always the evil in the heart that causes the beginning of the whole tragedy, namely the king, the Iago, the two princesses and Macbeth. They are driven by the desires of their hearts and exert their own malice towards the people around them. But this is not the main reason for the tragedy. All tragedies are due to the character of the protagonist's flaws. If Hamlet is a Othello, he who trusts others but does not trust his wife; Lear cannot recognize the heart of man; Macbeth is because he is not a man to do evil but to do evil. As I have heard a word: "Your talent is enough to make you, but your character will ruin you."

"External cause is the condition of change, internal cause is the basis of change, external cause through internal factors and function." "I think that's what I've learned from these four dramas. Therefore, the protagonist itself is more hateful than the villain in the text. Othello is more hateful than Iago, and King Lear is no more lovable than the two older daughters. The four tragedies reflect the tragic character of the four leading characters, carrying the supporting roles of the great and small in the text, and romance their lives. As Shakespeare himself said in Hamlet, "since the drama, its purpose has always been to reflect life, showing the true nature of good and evil." There is no doubt that all four of these dramas have done this. For love, fate, life and death of the thinking throughout the play. Love is fickle, fate is played, life and death is not subject to subjective control. The feelings of these four plays are not so good to write, I think not because their main thrust is not prominent, but contains too many things too miscellaneous, need to use a lifetime to understand. In short, thanks to Shakespeare for the precious wealth left for posterity.

Reflecting life, revealing good and evil--the four tragedies of Shakespeare after reading summary